Honda EU2000i

Honda? Bought brand new . First use Ran and shuts off by itself. Starts right up. Did that twice in 3 Hrs of use. Didn't think much. Put it back in the bos for 5 days. Put new gas and tried starting. Not sputter or nothing. Have to call the power tool place tomorrow. What a disappointment. Still on the charge card. I guess I got the only new Lemon around. I though my first Honada wouldn't give me problems for at least 2 years. I t hasn't even been a week. I would sacrifice Name brand and noise for a Generator that would just start!!!!!!!!!!

After Sandy I fired up two linked eu2000i Honda generators - ran them for 9 consecutive days - 7 of those days 24/7. They performed without a hitch! Ran everything from lights to frigs to microwave and oil burner/heat for hot water and heat! What else needs to be said. Combined a GenTran parrallel connector kit with an APC transfer switch and we were off and running. Tremendous machine.

Purchased a Honda EU2000i in 2002 for dry camping with my travel trailer. Use it probably 60 hours per season. Works flawlessly, starts easily, even after being unused for 6 months. Usually run it on premium gasoline without ethanol, at elevations up to 11,000 feet. Changed oil annually, no other maintenance. After 11 seasons the carburetor developed problems, presumably gummed up jet, will only run with choke partly closed and reduced power output. Never expected to get that kind of use before needing a repair.

I bought a Honda 2000i Generator 11/7/2011 from River Marine Miami. I brought it back to River Marine not working 12/6/2011. As of 3/8/2012 I still do not have a working Generator. I have also contacted Honda Power equipment to no avail. Owner and tech at River Marine have been pleasant but as yet have not to repair or replaced per warranty. They are an authorized service center for the product. Very poor customer service from River Marine and Honda

After 4 months being stored with Stabil in it, it would only run on choke. The jets were reamed and 10 days later I tried to start it again and the same thing. The carburator is so sensitive it can't sit, even when the bowl is drained, and start. It's quiet though, especially when it doesn't run.

I have a 3 year old 2000 EU Honda, a few weeks ago the entire thing caught on fire while being run. Internal parts melted and very luckily the thing did not blow up. My unit had only 50 or 60 hours of run time on it. Honda service rep had all kinds of excuses and basically blamed it on user error. One of his excuses was that I must have parked my car next to it and hot exaust burned a whole in the side of the plastic. I realized that the unit was not under warranty, but I fully expected Honda to stand behind their products, I guess I was wrong. I will be contacting the Federal safety comission and send them pictures of the melted and burned Honda unit. Very dissapointed in Honda in how they dealt with me. The service rep even went so far as to black out his email and phone # on his card, so I could not contact him again. Please let me know if anyone has heard of similar issues. [email protected]

Great inverter, however my only beefs are it is a pain to fill with gas, and to change the oil. When filling with gas you have to pour very slow, if you are filling from a full jerry can expect to make a mess. The second issue is changing oil, impossible to do without making a huge mess, the oil drains into the bottom of the inverter and onto the legs, so be sure not to put it on the floor of your RV or truck, very little thought put into this by the manufacturer.

The Honda EU2000i is an outstanding unit. I've had other portable generators - non compare. Easy start - very reliable starting; usually first pull.

Very quiet

Easy to handle/move

The Honda EU2000i is worth every penny! I love it! I bought two and use the "parallel kit" to power up our trailer's 15.5 BTU air conditioner! Works like a champ! ((((QUIET)))) That feature can't be beat by ANY other manufacturer! Sips gas! Very fuel efficient. Provides nice pure SIN wave, which is a must for sensitive electronics (i.e. lap tops etc...). Very reliable and durable. Makes a mess when you change the oil yourself. You have to lay the generator on it's side to drain the oil. If there is fuel in the carbuerator, it will also pour out all over the place. You have to drain the little carbuerator fuel bowl screw first before you tip the generator on it's side for the oil drain.

I kind of have a obsession for playing with my new generator. I have pretty much been running my Honda EU2000I hard non stop for six weeks now minus a few hard rain days we had, I had to put it away (bummer). I have a 15 thousand dollar Macintosh quad core (4 processors each processors (running at 3.2 gigahertz) with L4 cache= a total of 8 megabytes of cache total) dual 1050 gigahetz front side bus and ten gigs of ram, four 750 gig hard drives, a A.T.I. X 1900 512 megabytes high definition video card and a 23 inch high definition Apple cinema display. That is basically what I have been powering with my Honda. The computer only draws about 600 watts when I don't have much running but it can't take allot more depending on how much I open up. I run the Honda hard because I am putting it to the test. I bought a few Magna inverters off of E-Bay and all three broke in the first week and I learned the hard way that you get what you pay for besides there is no one willing to work on them because no small engine mechanic knows where to get the parts for the cheap pieces of crap. I also went through a Duro Power in two weeks after those, STAY AWAY FROM "DURO POWER LIKE THE PLAGUE! Duro Power does not back there warranty at all, they told me they would send out the parts to me but it was up to me to fix it! What a joke and I have read in other forums that other people have had the same warranty problems with "Duro Power". I would say my honda has well over 250 hours on it now. I change the oil about every 35 to 45 hours. I only use full synthetic 10w30 Mobile 1 oil in it. As a matter of fact the Honda is providing power to this computer right now as I type this forum. I clean out the air filter once a week and do all the maintenance as required to it. It comes with the two year residential warranty so I am not afraid to play with it like it's a toy. I live in the Chicago suburbs so if it does break and the Honda dealer gives me a hard time about honoring the warranty, I am not worried about it because there are about 50 more dealers within a 30 minute drive from me. I am not to worried about my Honda dealer not honoring the warranty because I already took it back for the rough idle and they where all smiles and the owner of the shop said come on in the the back with your generator and let's take a look at it. They put all the other customers aside that where not there at the time being and and worked on my carburetor and gave it some adjustments and told me not to be afraid to come back if I have any other problems. They even ran load tests on it for me and I did not ask them to do that. As for the few people I have read forums on about having there piston rod stretching and snapping, they must not have been giving there generators regular oil changes and I work with my uncle in his full automotive shop helping him pull engines and transmissions and stuff like that. I asked my uncle if it's possible to have a piston rod that is a non hardened metal and he laughed and said it would be impossible to put a non hardened piston rod in an engine and expect it to work. The piston rod is what takes the most abuse. I also asked the mechanic at Honda and I basically got the same answer and his reply was it is a hardened rod. I change the oil on a regular basis and I am sure most of you know that a air cooled engine runs much hotter than a liquid cooled engine, that is why I use full synthetic Mobile 1 oil, it protects up to 400 degrees and is very hard to get to break down and create sludge in the motor. Mobile 1 also will help the EU2000I run much cooler. What people are saying about the overhead cam making the engine run much hotter than just over head valves is a MYTH!!PIece to all.